Abstract
The motorcycle market has experienced an upward trend. That growth brings along mobility, accidents, and environment-related issues; nevertheless, there is a scarcity of literature on evaluating the impact of motorcycle market policies. Consequently, it has been challenging for researchers and policymakers to develop evidence-based strategies to promote or control the growth of this market. This paper aims to review and analyze the scientific literature about motorcycle market policies, using tech-mining techniques and a cluster analysis of keywords, to provide insights about the most relevant world trends in this research area. For this purpose, the bibliographic information of publications in the field was retrieved from the Scopus database. As a result, three thematic clusters (sustainability, mobility, and electric motorcycles) were identified and explained. According to our findings, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainability, environmental impact, and developing countries are the hot research topics. The research leader countries on said topics are the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. This study can, therefore, be used as a reference to define a future research agenda in the area. Consequently, it permits researchers and policymakers to identify trending topics and gaps in knowledge, as a baseline to include motorcycles in sustainable and affordable transport systems design.
Highlights
This paper describes the results of organizing, analyzing, hierarchizing, and categorizing 103 scientific research articles on policies for the motorcycle market using a methodology based on tech mining, analysis of keyword co-occurrences, and clustering
Nowadays, consumers are opting for electric motorcycles
After the data analysis stage, we found that is possible to contribute to the few existing studies about motorcycle market policies and insights to stablish a baseline for future research, and policymakers’ orientation are presented in the following five subsections
Summary
This paper describes the results of organizing, analyzing, hierarchizing, and categorizing 103 scientific research articles on policies for the motorcycle market using a methodology based on tech mining, analysis of keyword co-occurrences, and clustering.Our results provide a broad picture of this research area, which serves to determine its most relevant journals, countries, authors, and keywords, as well as their interactions.An analysis of keyword co-occurrences and the implementation of clustering techniques allowed us to identify three major emerging research themes based on the data we collected, as well as the topics of current interest in the field.In many cities, urbanization has led to a rapid increase in the demand for mobility.Most of this new demand has been satisfied by the individual private transport industry, within which motorcycles have an important share: around 30% of the vehicles in the world are motorcycles [1].Motorcycles, known as motorbikes or bikes, are two-wheelers primarily driven by an internal combustion engine. This paper describes the results of organizing, analyzing, hierarchizing, and categorizing 103 scientific research articles on policies for the motorcycle market using a methodology based on tech mining, analysis of keyword co-occurrences, and clustering. An analysis of keyword co-occurrences and the implementation of clustering techniques allowed us to identify three major emerging research themes based on the data we collected, as well as the topics of current interest in the field. Urbanization has led to a rapid increase in the demand for mobility. Most of this new demand has been satisfied by the individual private transport industry, within which motorcycles have an important share: around 30% of the vehicles in the world are motorcycles [1]. The global sales of motorcycles have been similar to those of cars
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